154 DJAN'DRIA TRIGYNIA* PiptT. 



nerved, (generally five,) above, smooth and glossy, below, lighter 

 coloured, often somewhat bubbled, from four to six inches lung, and 

 from t\v > to four broad. — Petioles cliaimelled, smooth, an inch or 

 an inch and half long. — Stipu/es soihsay, spathiform falling off when 

 the leaf begins to be unfolded. 



Male Plant. C«/j/x an t/wey/^, leaf- opposed, peduncled, filiform, 

 penddlous, closely imbricated with five spiral rows, of tieshy, oval, 

 one-flowered scales. — Sca/t'5 oblong, peltate, sessile, cue-fio\iered. 

 — Coro/ none. — JV/a//ie«^s three, very thick, and very short, scarcely 

 elevating the anthers above the margms oi the scales of the ameut. 

 Anthers four-lobed. — Pistil, in some, a muiuie cylhidnc gland in the 

 centre, in others, not the smallest rudiment of one. 



Female Pl.iNT. (.'rt/j/.i an ayyzt;;;/^, !eaf- opposed, shorter, thicker, 

 and more rigid thaa in the male, imbricated with three spiral rows of 

 Scales. — Scales us in the male. — Carol none. — Stamens iione.-* — 

 Germ sesouc, globose, immersed in the substance of the ameut. 

 Stjjte none. Stigma three-lobed, white, glandular. — Pericarp, a 

 buiail, round, ito, s.uicwhat fleshy hewy .— Seed one., globose. 



Ul/s. When i described the three vines included in this one species, 

 I had not St en Piper ?iigrum, and took it for granted that this was it ; 

 bu' 9s soon as I had aa opportunity of seeing that famous plant, I 

 v> as immediately convinced that they were distinct species. In trioi- 

 cum, ihe Itaves have a glaucous appearance, which readily distin- 

 gvushes itfrijm P. nigrum, v\hich has shining dark green leaves. 



This vin I lave found wild amongst the chain of mouiiitains directly 

 noith horn Coringa, in ihe Raja-mundr/Circar. It delights in a moist, 

 rich soil, v»eli sliaded with trees ; to them it adheres most firmly, by 

 means of the roots which issue from the joints. Flowering time, iu 

 their wild stale, during the latter part of the wet season, Septem- 

 ber and October. The pepper ripens in March. With me, m a 

 cultivated state, they flower almost all the year round, but chiefly 

 during the forementioned period. 



1 have not met with any author, or any sort of information, that 

 could lead me to think black pepper was the produce of a dioecous 



